Does that make it a male?
I only know a few spider species and I couldn’t even hazard a guess at that one.
But there are people on iSpot who know their spiders - if they come here.
no its not significant it gives you a clue weather its male though
yes its a male. males have large palps
I could do an easyer one if that would be better
I have really failed at this one - would love to know the answer!
ok would you like more clues first?
Not sure it would help, but let’s give it a go!
its the in correct photo to the one i intended that i thought i added but the one I meant to send begins with philodramis and then its surname beigins with a D
guess what it is
The wisdom of predictive URLs gives Philodromus dispar, sometimes known as house crab spider, or Eurasian running crab spider.
dispar is an epithet (species epithet), not a surname. The generic name is a closer correspondence to a surname - think of botanical and zoological (and bacteriological) names as being like Hungarian and Japanese names, where the family name comes first.
Ah ha! I would not have got this one.
By the bye - apologies for a slow response: village telecoms are suffering after yesterday’s rain…
I would never have got the Spider I’ve got a Guidebook on spiders but I’ve never really got to grips with them so many of them seem to need dissection or microscopic examination.
Here’s a “guess the plant” audio.
︎ The Arboretum | Bill Jones (bandcamp.com)
On a slightly similar vein, plants can be identified using sight, and judiciously touch, taste and smell. A week or so back I discovered that hearing can also be used; flowering ivy can be identified by the buzz of the pollinators.
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The answer is larch. Deciduous and with needles limits it to Larix, Pseudolarix, Metasequoia and Taxodium, and the distribution eliminates Pseudolarix (China), Metasequoia (China) and Taxodium (North America). One could quibble about the Europe and Japan; that’s where the larches commonly grown in Britain come from, but there are also species native to Siberia and North America.